BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting
Thursday, May 24, 2010
6:30 p.m.
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Polk Street), Room 408
AGENDA
1. Roll Call
2. Announcements & Acknowledgments
3. Approve Minutes - May 27 & June 14, 2010 Meetings
4. Public Comment: (Discussion Item)
The public may address the Committee on any matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee.
This should not relate to any item on this agenda since the Committee
will take public comment after it discusses and/or before voting on each
agenda item. The Committee requests that each person limit him/herself
to three minutes.
5. Chairman's Report (Information)
- Committee Member Business – Continued openings in Districts 6 & 8
- Monthly Activities
6. Committee Member Reports (Information)
7. MTA Bicycle Program Report – See MTA Bicycle Program Report to the BAC for June 2010 (http://www.sfmta.com/cms/cbike/3170.html).
8. Task Force Reports
a. Golden Gate Park – Susan King, District 5
b. Bicycle Report Card Task Force – No Report
c. BART Task Force - Mariana Parreiras (off-month – no report)
d. Shared Mode Working Group – Proposal for PSAC, SFBC, BAC, WalkSF, SAN, MDC, SFPD, DPH development of joint resolution: Cooperative Use of Streets and Sidewalks.
9. SF Civil Grand Jury
– “Sharing the Roadway: From Confrontation to Conversation.”
Recommended amendments to the SF Bike Plan of 2009. Deadline for
comments to the Findings and Recommendations to Superior Court – July
12. Final Report on Bike Plan Amendments by January 1, 2011. The Grand
Jury Report with Findings and Recommendations can be reviewed at http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2624
Action: Discussion & Approval of Response Letter to Superior Court
Sponsor: Bert Hill, Chair
10. Adjournment
DISABILITY ACCESS:
Room 408 of City Hall is
wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART Station is Civic
Center, three blocks from City Hall. Accessible MUNI lines serving this
location are: #47 Van Ness, and the #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to
Market and Van Ness and the Metro stations at Van Ness and Market and
at Civic Center. For more information about MUNI accessible services,
call 923-6142. There is accessible parking in the vicinity of City Hall
at Civic Center Plaza and adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial
Complex.
Large print copies of the agenda, sign language interpreters, or
assistive listening systems can be made available by contacting the DPT
staff liaison, Lorraine R. Fuqua, at 415-554-9808.. In order to assist
the City’s efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies,
environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity, or related
disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other
attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please
help the City accommodate these individuals.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE
Government's
duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the
public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City
and County exist to conduct the people's business. The Sunshine
Ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and
that City operations are open to the people's review. For information
on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San
Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the
ordinance, contact Donna Hall; by mail to Sunshine Ordinance Task Force,
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco CA 94102 by
phone at (415) 554-7724, by fax at (415) 554-7854 or by email at
[email protected] Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine
Ordinance by contacting Ms. Hall or by printing Chapter 67 of the San
Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at http://www.sfgov.org/sunshine.htm
Persons from the public may inspect documents referred to on the agenda
by contacting our staff liaison, Frank Markowitz at 252-4696.
LOBBYIST ORDINANCE
Individuals
and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative
or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Campaign
and Governmental Conduct Code, Section 2.100, to register and report
lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance,
please contact the Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900,
San Francisco, CA 94102, telephone 415-581-2300, fax 415-581-2317, or
visit their Web site at www.sfgov.org/ethics/.